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11.04.2013

When disaster strikes....Dream Garage Update

If you have been following along you would know that lately all I have been talking about is the dream garage, I wrote about it here and here.

I had a great weekend planned, spending time with a friend Friday night and then Saturday morning heading to my parents place to spend the day with my mom and a little shopping trip to Buffalo.

We made it to Buffalo but no more than 20 min. into the shopping trip I received this horrible message from Branko:

"Storm has flattened the garage"

It couldn't be I thought, maybe the roof or plywood was ripped off. But no the entire garage was completely flattened.

The back wall buckled from the force of the wind once it fell backwards it pulled the front wall down and then the roof come straight down.

We quickly picked up what we needed and headed home. My drive home from my parents is roughly 1 hour and 30 min. It's safe to say I cried almost the entire way home.

Big fat wet ugly sobbing tears.

I get it, it's just a garage. Nobody was hurt but I couldn't stop thinking about the long hours of work we put into that garage.

This section is the worse part as it sits dangerously and will be the toughest to get apart.

Standing from further away the front wall is sitting on the ground almost like somebody just pushed it over.

At the end of the weekend we also received some devastating news about a family member passing away and it put all of this in perspective, the garage destroyed didn't matter so much anymore. You can take pieces of wood apart and put them back together but when life is taken from you so suddenly you cannot have that back.

It's good of you to work hard to put the garage in perspective, but we all deserve to feel our disappointments. I sure would be upset too! Sorry this happened to you! And please accept my condolences on the death in the family.

Oh no....I'm so sorry to hear you've lost someone in your family. You're very right - a garage can be rebuilt, but life is precious and short. That wind was crazy on the weekend. Unbelievable that it could knock that entire structure down. I'm so sorry :(

I know I'm super late, but man... that is awful. You had every right to cry all the way home. You guys worked so hard. But I'd bet a million bucks that this will never happen again and that the next time the walls go up, they will stay that way forever! So sorry about both of your losses. Sending you a big giant bear hug!

Oh my gosh. That is so sad...the weather has been so crazy the last few years. I'm sorry your garage came down. I hope that the fix isn't as bad as you are predicting and that you one day look back at this as just a crazy story. I'm also sorry about the death in your family. Keep your chin up.